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With the help of four local families, we till, fertilize and plant corn in the area in front of the driveway at the Gonzales Elementary School. The corn patch is available to the school as a living laboratory for their use. When the corn is ripe, the students get to pick and use the corn. This project is very weather dependent and Mother Nature can sure be fickle, so we don’t get to do this every year.
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The Corn Patch Program
In an agricultural community such as ours, children need to understand how our food is grown commercially. So, several years ago, we designed the Corn Patch Program to get the children up close and personal with farming. We hoped to show students in the 3rd grade how agricultural crops are grown. With the help of four local families, we tilled, fertilized and planted corn in the area in front of the driveway at the Gonzales Elementary School. The corn patch was available to the school as a living laboratory for their use. When the corn was ripe, the students got to pick and use the corn. This project is very weather dependent and Mother Nature can sure be fickle, so we don’t get to do this every year, but every now and then, we catch a break! So if you see a cornfield springing up next to Gonzales Elementary . . . .
